Improvement in attaching- tugs to whiffle-trees



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CHARLES H. NYE, or4 ELIZABETHPORT, NEW JERSEY. Leners Patent No. 87,870, dated Mwah 16, 1869.'

IMIPROVENIEN'T IN ATTACHING- TU'G-S TO WHIFILE-TREES.

The Schedule referred foin these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

reference being had no the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved fastening, partly in section, through the line a: x, fig. 2'.

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of the same, taken 'through the line y y, fig. l. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device for attaching tugs to whiHe-trees, which 4shall be strong, simple in construction, easily attached and detached, and not liable to become accidentally detached; and

It consists in the device hereinafter more fully described.

A is a plate, around an opening, in the middle part of which is formed a socket, or iiauge, B, of such a height as to reach through the tug, and through the.

loose, or detached plate O, placed upon the other side of the tug from the plate-A.

The plates A and C may be connected and secured to each other and to the tug, by pins, cast upon the one plate, and passing through the tug and through the other plate, to which they are securely riveted.

Or, if desired, the said pins may he passed through and riveted to both the plates A C.

The socket Bois made in the shape shown in g. l, Vthat is to say, in the shape of a slot, enlarged at both ends, the enlargement at the forward end being made large enough to receive the 'knob of the whifiie-tree socket D, and the enlargement at the-rear end being made large enough to receive the neck of the socketknob D, but not large enough -to allow said knob to pass through.

D is the knob-socket, the inner end of which is made in the forlm'of a socket, to receive the end of the whiffletree, to which it is secured by rivets or screws in the ordinary manner.

The outer end of the socket D is made in the form of a'knob, the neck of which. is somewhat attened, as -shown in fig. 1, the said socket D being attached to the whiiie-tree in such a position lthat the said attened neck may be a little angling, as shown in iig. 1.

The flattened neck of the socket-knob D should be of such a thickness that it mayslide through the middle, or narrow part of the tug-socket Al B O.

The outer end, or knob,of 4the socket D may he made of any desired form, and .may be ornamented, to

conform to the mounting of the harness,

In using the device, the knob of the Whittle-tree socket D is passed through the forward, or larger end of the tug-socket A B O. The tug is 4then raised, so that the socket can be slid upwardv and forward upon the flattened neck of the socketfknob D, until the said neck reaches the rear end of said socketA B C. The tug is then dropped into its proper position, and is fastened'to the whiiile-tree so securely,that it cannot become detached, while in any position into which it is possible for it to get while being used.

In detaching the fastening, the tug is raised to the proper angle, and pushed back, until the knob D can pass out through the enlarged forward end of the socket A B C I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The socket A BU, constructed substantially as d herein shown and described, for attachment to a harness-tug, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The socket-knob D, constructedwith a attned neck,'for attachment to a whifle-tree, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The tug-socket A B O and the socket-knob D,

when used in connection with each other, for attach-` ing tugs to whiiiie-trees, substantially as herein shown and described, and forthe purpose set forth.

Witnesses: OHAS. H. NYE.

1W. H. ELLIS, J. H. FRANKLIN. 

